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KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 82.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 74.7%

Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW/IOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Iowa City, IA, 26 mi south of Cedar Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 20 arrivals and 24 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

19h ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

3 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 250152Z AUTO 16003KT 10SM CLR 21/17 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP181 T02060167

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

44% of ops

255 land · 306 TO

23% of ops

134 land · 142 TO

19% of ops

108 land · 65 TO

14% of ops

81 land · 70 TO

Runway 25 carries 44% of operations (255 landings, 306 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 23%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

25 255 landings

UA 7%

07 134 landings

UA 4%

12 108 landings

UA 6%

30 81 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 25 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (18 UA events from 255 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

27.7

flights/day · 830 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 1pm · 4pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 27.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (29.9 vs 28.1 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (34% of 629 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.700	—
APCH	134.050	—
APCH	266.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	128.075	—
CD/P	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
IOWA CIT	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—
CEDAR RA	132.800	—
OTHER	132.800	—
CEDAR RA	328.400	—
OTHER	328.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

07/18/2007

re: Alexis Park Inn

I've never been to the airport, but I remember Jay well from the aviation Usenet groups -- he seems like a good guy, and I'm glad to hear that the hotel is still working out well.

Crash7